Applying a template to page in a posts archive page

I believe we’ll need some more information about how you’ve set this up before anyone can help you.

You’ve got an archive template for your custom post-type. Would that be an archive-{custom-post-type}.php file that is picked up by the WordPress Template hierarchy, or is it a Page template that you’ve created? A

Please let us know so we can help you ??

In this case, my custom post type is (events). So I have a file called archive-events.php. Then to display each event, I have a file called content-events.php.

At the “top” of archive-events.php, I want to display a page. The way I do it now is that I use the following function and pass it the page ID:


function echo_page_description_mp($page_id)
{
$page = get_page($page_id);

echo '<article>';

echo '<div class="page-description">';
echo '<p>';
echo $page->post_content;
echo '</p>';
echo '</div>';

echo '</article>';
}

With that approach, I am not using the template that I have attached to that page. I’ve basically created a new template for it so that I could insert it at the top of the archive-events.php template.

All the PHP files I created myself. They are picked up automatically though by WordPress.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Where did you put the function definition for echo_page_description_mp()? In functions.php?

and you’re calling the function at the top of the archive-events.php template with a hard-coded $page_id?

When you visit the permalink for the page you want to borrow content from… does the content show up there?

Yes, the code for the echo_page_… is in the functions.php. I do hard code the page ID. The content does show up properly. So basically, everything works. But, I just don’t know how to use the template I have attached to that page to display its content. I would like to use the template, because other archive pages that I have will also use pages at the top. I would like to use that same template with them also.

The way I do it now doesn’t strike me as a very good solution.

This might sound silly, but are you sure the page id is valid? The only reason I ask is because if the page is not found get_page will return a null value.

I’ve been known to accidentally transpose a digit-or-two when hard-coding ID’s. After looking at your code, myself, I can’t figure out why it’s not working.

The page ID is correct because I display the text from the page properly. So everything is working. I’m just wondering how do I take a page ID and then apply the related template to it for displaying in the archive page.